Scouts face division on gays

Possible end to ban embraced, criticized

11:50 PM,
Feb. 3, 2013

Written by

Hema Easley

Parents of Boy Scouts have had varied responses to news that the Boy Scouts of America might lift a longstanding ban on openly gay leaders and youth members.

If it does make that choice this week, a decision on whether to allow homosexuals to participate in the Boy Scouts will ultimately rest with charter organizations that sponsor individual troops, according to the Boy Scouts of America.

Many charter organizations in the Lower Hudson Valley are churches, and not all welcomed the policy change. ...